2020 Bioethics Research Showcase Submissions

MULTIMEDIA + PERFORMANCE

• Leanne Almeida: “Forgotten Effects of Progress: The Introduction of Steam Power in British India”

• Mayesha Awal: “I’m in pain but do you understand?”

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• Alexandra Bowman: “Editorial Political Cartoons for Our Daily Planet”
• Emily Jaster: “Ethical Coding: A Radio Play”
• Lucy Karlin: “Reality, Truth, and Womxn’s Stories: Debunking Myths About Abortion”

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• Maddy Rice: “DNa (Discarded Narratives in Action)
• Jinia Sarkar: “Environmental Education through Play and Learning for Grade R Students in South Africa”
• Daelyn Waters and Ryon Henderson: “The Garden of Eden”

JOURNALISTIC REPORTING

• Alexa Asch: “Can Prenatal Care Influence Adulthood Diseases?”
• Grace Buono: “Yes, Your Traveling is Ruining our Planet. But Don’t Stop Now”
• Annemarie Cuccia: “Georgetown’s Long Path To Divestment”
• Annemarie Cuccia and Annabella Hoge: “‘Unlike Any Other Class’: AMST 272 Confronts Georgetown’s History With Slavery”
• Cynthia Desmet Villar: “Greenovation: Future of Technology and Sustainability”
• Kristen Garino: “GU Health Services Lack Adequate Accessibility for Students”
• Amber Gillette and Yu Young Lee: “Campus Sustainability Hindered by Lack of Communication”
• Sonya Hu: “Forced Sterilizations Devastate Lives in South Africa”
• Sarah Hutchison: “Neuroethics: The discourse taking place today and being implemented tomorrow”
• Samantha Martin: “The Modern Trolley Problem: Navigating Your Individual Responsibility Amidst the Climate Crisis”
• Marisa Morrison: “IVF Now Accessible to Single Women & Lesbians in France”
• Roman Peregrino: “Swiping Out Food Insecurity One Meal at a Time”
• Maeve Silk: “Sustainable Fashion Moves Toward Ethical Sourcing”
• Noah Telerski: “Maryland Blocks Proposed Off Campus Solar Project”

RHETORIC + ARGUMENTATION

• Julia Alvey: “Access to Basic Healthcare: a Privilege or a Right? A Case Analysis”
• Anny Angel: “Power, Property, and Responsibility to Pay”
• Charlotte Lindsay: “Organ Allocation: A Loaded Process”
• Aashna Reddy: “The Ethical Considerations of Concurrent Surgeries”
• Henry Silver: “The Logic and Ethics of Climate Change Denial”
• Layla Weiss: “Disability & Healing in the Gospels (Mark 5:23-34)”
• Nicholas Young: “Banning Abortions of Down Syndrome Fetuses is Harmful to Disabled People”

ACADEMIC PAPER

• Amna Al-Essa: “Inception of Life in Islam and its Impact on Bioethical Controversies: The Use of Embryonic Stem Cells in Research”
• Katelyn Barr: “The Green New Deal Through the Lens of Justice”
• Ethan Cantrell: “The United States: Power, Responsibility, and Climate Change”
• Emily Coster: “Exploring Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Broader Implications of MRI Technology”
• Cynthia Desmet Villar: “Our Moral Responsibility Towards Climate Refugees”
• Madeline Forbess: “Temporal Logic in Hardy’s The Woodlanders: The Present in the Past’s Wake”
• Carly Glickenhaus: “Human Costs of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing on the High Seas: Threats to Global Security and Human Ethics”
• Peter Guthrie: “Why the Green New Deal Can Implement the Well-being Model of Justice”
• Olivia Kleier: “Laudato Si, the Earth and the Disability Community”
• Casey Kozak: “A Medical Examination of Humanitarian Aid”
• Anna Landre: “Exploring Discrimination in Climate Change Policies: Intertwining Disability Justice and Climate Justice”
• Hannah Lynch: “The Reconciliation of Religion and Reproductive Rights”
• Hannah Lynch: “Values at Odds: The Tension between Others’ Speech and Individual Liberty at Abortion Clinics and CPCs, too”
• Sarah Mardjuki: “Privacy in the Age of the Coronavirus: A Deontological Perspective”
• William Misciagna: “Nancy Eiesland’s Reimagined Theology of Disability”
• Sadie Morris: “The Duty to Imagine”
• Trevor O’Connor: ““Medical Closets”: An Analysis of the Parallels between Dean Spade’s Criticism of the “Medical Model of Transsexuality” and Criticism of the Traditional “Coming Out Narrative”
• Omoyele Okunola: ‘Introduction,’ of “CODIFYING SERVITUDE: UNSOUND SLAVES AND EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN U.S. SLAVERY, 1830-1860” 
• William Overcash: “Contemporary Class Warfare: Analyzing the Development, Impact, and Prospects of the Feudal-Capital-Order’s Manipulation of the American Political Economy”
• Aashna Reddy: “Physician Assisted Suicide and its Implications”
• Jinia Sarkar: “Medicalization Erasing Women Who Face Violence”
• Katrina Schmidt: “Human Rights and Bolivia’s Pluralist Legal System”
• Henry Silver: “Aytzim: An Object Lesson in Jewish Environmentalism”
• Chloe Suzuki: “Ethics of the Fast Fashion Industry as it Relates to Climate Change”
• Patrick Walsh: “What’s past is prologue”: The Consideration of Health Interventions”
• Joyce Yang: “Reconciling Justice and ‘Green Gentrification’”
  

POLICY PROPOSAL

• Helen Wickstrom: “A Call for Commercial Payment Parity for Telehealth Services”
  
  

BUSINESS PLAN

LITERARY + CREATIVE WRITING

• Rachel Biggio: “Infection in the Ideology”
• Ethan Cantrell: “Environmental Burdens: A Environmental Justice and Disability Studies Approach”
• Katherine Dammer: “Marieke Vervoort: A Lens for an Ethical Discourse on Euthanasia”
• Healy Knight: “The New Garden: Histories of the Garden of Ninfa”
• Sarah Martin: “Emit’s Assisted Suicide Center”
• Avery van Natta: “Just Another Day?”
• Claudia Pagnozzi-Schwam: “What Am I? The Invisible Riddle”
• Aashna Reddy: “Guzaarish: A Bioethical Film Analysis”
• Alicia Tacoronte: “Bravo!”
• Rebecca Zaritsky: “To Alois Alzheimer, from Auguste Deter”